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노숙자에게 잘해야 하는 이유

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:29:19 GMT

조선일보에 댓글 남긴 어느분이 지극히 맞는 말을 하신다.

노숙자분께 평소에 국가가 잘 해야합니다. 이 땅에 전쟁나면 이중국적자(장관, 재벌, 고위공무원, 강부자, 고소득 언론인, 대학교수) 중 90프로 다른 나라로 갑니다. 노숙자는 비행기표 살 돈이 없어서 이 나라에서 외적과 싸워야합니다. 100프로가 어떤 계층이 100프로가 국가방위를 위해 몸을 바치겠습니까? 저는 매일 저분들이 빨리 행복해지도록 기도드립니다.

나도 비슷한 생각을 몇번 해 봤다. 미국에서 영주하는 이상, 만약이라도 전쟁나면 나도 이 미국땅을 위해 총들고 나가서 싸워야 하는것을 생각하면, 백인과 흑인들 앞에서 기죽을 이유가 정말 없다.

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:48:45 GMT

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Therefore, those who are powerless should always carry with them a healthy dose of suspicion towards the powerful.

The first saying seems to be true enough that people across the political board seem to accept it as a matter of principle, but the second saying -- which is merely a logical extension of the first -- seems to have a much more difficult time getting traction in the minds of various people.

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Sun, 24 May 2009 22:03:06 GMT

Paul Krugman:

Europeans don't lose their health care when they lose their jobs. They don't find themselves with essentially no support once their trivial unemployment check has fallen off. We have nothing underneath. When Americans lose their jobs, they fall into the abyss. That does not happen in other advanced countries, it does not happen, I want to say, in civilized countries.

There is indeed something completely fucked up about a situation where the following scenario can very easily occur: one gets sick, and therefore can't perform his or her job, and therefore loses the job, and thereby loses health insurance. In essence, this person lost coverage because he got sick. You really want to say that something so absurdly damaging to a country's well being cannot be brought about unless some truly powerful and insidious forces gathered together behind the scenes to somehow make the crazy seem normal.

Why you can't blame Korean mothers for obsessively worrying about their kids falling behind

Sat, 23 May 2009 23:48:38 GMT

Second, we have evidence from the natural experiment that is summer vacation. During those three months out of school, the cognitive skills of children in lower socioeconomic status (SES) households tend to stall or actually regress. Kids in high-SES households fare much better during the summer, as they’re more likely to spend it engaged in stimulating activities. In his book Intelligence and How to Get It, cognitive psychologist Richard Nisbett concludes that “much, if not most, of the gap in academic achievement between lower- and higher-SES children, in fact, is due to the greater summer slump for lower-SES children” (p. 40).

-- Lane Kenworthy

America, the land of incredible opportunity

Thu, 07 May 2009 11:13:34 GMT

Eugene Kang
Age: 25 [TWENTY FIVE!! -- my emphasis]
Special Assistant to the President

Why he's influential: Because he's at the President's side. Maybe you've wondered what it might be like to play a round of golf with the President of the United States. This guy's actually done it. But he's not just Barack's golf buddy. As a political adviser and Special Assistant to the President, Eugene Kang has a unique place in the Obama administration, and a bright future ahead of him.

In 2005, as a student at the University of Michigan, Kang ran for the Ann Arbor City Council... and lost. Narrowly, by just 90 votes. After college, he landed a job in Chicago working in the political affairs shop of the early Obama campaign. On the campaign trail, he drummed up support for Obama among Asian Americans, traveled with the Senator, and even carried the future President's cell phone.

Today, if you want to talk to the President on the phone, Eugene Kang is the guy who gets it done. He sets up phone calls to everyone from high-powered politicians to grassroots activists. He's also Obama's "special projects coordinator," meets with the office of political affairs, and takes it upon himself to make sure the President is informed of what's going on in "the real world." I'd call that pretty influential.

--AngryAsianMan.com

Abortion not a centrally important issue between GOP and Democrats

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:46:49 GMT

At least according to below polling results from 2003...

Group	Generally available	Available, but with stricter limits than now	Not permitted
Overall	39%	38%	22%
Women	37%	37%	24%
Men	40%	40%	20%
Democrats	43%	35%	21%
Republicans	29%	41%	28%

-Source

일반인들의 고통과 코메디

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 03:21:50 GMT

지난 3월에는 대학생 딸이 취직 시험 준비를 독촉하는 어머니를 경찰에 신고하는 웃지 못할 사건이 벌어지기도 했다. 서울 강동구에 사는 대학 4학년 이모(여·23)씨가 공무원시험 공부를 제대로 하지 않는다고 꾸짖은 어머니를 신고한 것. 이씨는 “어머니가 평소 ‘취업난’ ‘철밥통’ 등을 들먹이며 대학 생활 내내 공무원 시험 준비를 강요했다”며 “취업한 친구들과 비교해 자존심이 상했다”고 진술했다고 한다. 강동경찰서 측은 “어머니 A씨가 딸이 열심히 공부하지 않아 타일렀을 뿐”이라면서 “A씨가 ‘공무원 시험을 준비하라고 한 것도 다 딸을 위하는 마음이었다’고 항변했다”고 전했다. 목표 없이 시작한 취업 준비가 빚은 촌극인 셈이다. - 링크

나의 가족사에도 이런 일이 있었다 (내가 신고한건 아니었다). 너무나도 리얼 하지만 동시에 또한 Surreal 하기도 한, 한마디로 어처구니가 없는 황당한 상황이라고 해야 될까.

I guess this is how computer geeks have their fun

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 02:15:03 GMT

Like many startups at that time, we ran into funding problems at the end of 2000. We were about to go into beta with our first customers when our problems were compounded when our application server vendor revoked our demo license and demanded payment. We had to find a free solution fast, and that was when I stumbled into the open source application server, JBoss.

It didn't take very long to convert to JBoss, but I found that JBoss 2.0 was a bit raw in some areas. I had an extensive background in writing middleware under the tutelage of Steve Vinoski at Iona, so it wasn't too difficult to jump into the codebase. I immediately began fixing bugs here and there, submitting patches to the JBoss mail list. After a few months of contributing, I received a strange email:

what do you do in real life

The email was from JBoss's founder, Marc Fleury. Let me tell you, JBoss was the first open source project I had ever contributed to, and receiving an email from the founder himself was almost like receiving a message from God. OK, maybe I'm exaggerating a bit here. It was more like receiving a coded message from Morpheus in the movie The Matrix. I responded to Marc's email, saying I worked for a struggling startup and that I had written middleware at my previous job at Iona. I got a one-sentence response from Marc:

do you want to take the red pill

I was hooked. I replied yes, and my journey down the rabbit hole began. I became a CVS committer and first worked on entity bean synchronization. Later that year, I helped Sacha Labourey on JBoss's first clustering implementation. The rest is history.

--Bill Burke, author of Enterprise Javabeans, 3.0

Monday, April 20, 2009

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:34:50 GMT

"27살..이민에 대해 심각하게 고민중입니다" -링크

찬성: 87 반대: 17

뭐...더 이상 할 말이 없다.

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:42:21 GMT

I really would prefer not to disagree with the masses in a case like Susan Boyle, but I just can't help it. Sure, it's a great thing that people don't let her unfashionable looks and less than average background get in the way of appreciating her awesome singing voice, but last time I checked there were plenty of ugly people who made a great career out of what is primarily their god-given talent for singing. What's the real difference here? Do you guys get sore when faced with people who inherited millions of dollars or incredibly good looks or a massive intellect? Yeah, well, I also get sore when faced with people who can win the hearts of millions of people simply by singing a song really well.

Not too much. Just a little sore.